U.S. immigration

The revised procedures would allow judges to deny claims to entire groups of people without ever giving them court hearings.

"It breaks my heart...They raised their expectations only to then leave them terribly disappointed," said CBP Florida spokesperson Michael Silva.

"As these numbers indicate, construction of hundreds of more miles of border wall would not address the challenge of irregular migration into our country. Far from it," said the Center for Migration Studies's executive director.

The Oakland mayor alerted illegal immigrants about impending ICE raids last year.

"This effort by the Trump Administration to create additional obstacles to those seeking to live in Baltimore is an affront to the ideals and principles on which this nation was founded," Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh said.

The 1882 law portrayed Chinese immigrants as "unassimilable."

"Now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order," President Donald Trump has said of his aim to end birthright citizenship in the U.S.

The Southern Poverty Law Center announced the lawsuit on Monday.

The visas are meant for American businesses "in danger of suffering irreparable harm" due to labor shortages.

"The border is not a rights-free zone, and what this family went through was clearly unconstitutional," said ACLU attorney Hugh Handeyside in a statement.

Responses to a recent Gallup Poll are almost the exact opposite of the responses in 2005.